Sy Ivan VOLUME-XIX BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 0. 1914. NUMBER- 0 MARY ROBERTS JENKINS 1834-1914. On Sunday evening, February 1st, Mary Roberts Jenkins, widow of Albert Jenkins of Brevard, passed trom earth to the rest of Paradise, full of years and good works. On Siituruay, January 31st, she celebrated her eightieth birthday, and the following evening “When at last, in stillest night. She seemed to sleep, A birthday came to her in truth— The gift it brought, Immortal Youth.” Mrs. Jenkins was the daughter of Jose])h Robertsand Mary Hodges, his wife, of I’aswell House, Cur- bridge, Oxfordshire. She was gently reared, a devoted member of the ('hurch of England, confirmed by the Hight Rev. Samuel Wilber- force, the great bishop of Oxford, and married when twenty-eight years old to the man of her choice, whose beloved conjrade she was through liftv-one years of wedded life, celobrating their golden anni versary in July, 1'.)!•>. Beautiful in their united life, in death but a few short inontlis divided them. Mr. ainl Mrs. .lenkins i>assed their hon(*ynioon in Ireland. Returning ti) Worcester, where Mr. Jenkins was e’i>;ag<'d in the business of a corn Til ere hunt, they spent ten years of ha])])y wedded life, their home lilt'ssi'd with inutual love and laughtt«r jnul prattle of their little one^ — Harry, Fniuk, Arthur, Daisy, Ada and Herbert, Ciod's i)recious gifts to them. Then they made tlie great veutun*, crossed the sea, and lii.ally st*ttled near Brevard, wlu're for I'orty-one years, side by side and hand in hand, tliey trod life's way together through storm and snnshini', smiles aiid tears, shiirin*' tlieir toils and tronbli's. joy.'- anil sorrmvs, likj tlie true coniraih's tiiev were. Tlien <^od tt^ok liiiii. and for scarc«*ly i'cur brief nionllis she ‘walked alont' until Ood united them once more ill thi‘ best of lands. Three eliildivn were added to tln‘in here—Lilian, Htdena and Er- n«'st—oiif of lies beneath the ehanci-l window of St. Phili])s, Brevard. Two otliers, born in ^lerrie, Hn^land, rest with, tlu ir ])arents o»» the sunny hillside of old St. r.iid's in tlie Valley. “For a spare the tired body Lies with fci-t toward the dawn. Till tluTc hivaks the last and bri^htc.st Master morn. On iha; Kaslor morning .Ml Ihf f:raves thi-ir dead restore. Fatiur. .sister, child and mother, .Meet (mce more.” Six elnldri'ii and ^ifteen grand children snrvivi' h(‘r. What a blessed ]iie?siu;y they have to cher ish of their dear old saint, whose bles.sfd mini-try i f love and devo tion to home !ind chnrcli she j^as left 11.(VH as a ]>r.cions l(*gacy. I ^-nall miss Iht smiling face :ind her warm \Vfl(‘<»nie. lu'r thoughtful acts of ki!idness and gentle minis tries mon* than I can tell. In lovimx rcnieiubrance, la r s< r- rowing liaMiir, <‘M \f 'IKKS I), (’h a i’M \\. ROSMAN NEWS As I haven’t seen much from our little town I thought I would give you just a little write up this week. We are glad to report the Sunday school at Zion as progressing. Have enrolled since the first of the year l>5, and 715 present last Sunday. A Valentine party will be given by the Sunbeams of the Zion Bap tist church at the home of Mrs. S. C. Neal February l*i. A very inter esting programme will be rendered, after which the Ijjidie.s Aid Society of the same church will sell cofll'ee, cake and other good eatables. The public is cordially invited. Come and bring your friends. Mr. J. T. (lillespie and family of East Fork have moved to Rosman, occupying one of F. J. W’^hitmire’s houses. We are glad to welcome them in cur midst. Mrs. M. J. Glazener is on the sick list this week. Hope she will soon be out again. Mrs. L. M. Glazener has been con fined to her rov^m several days with lagrippc. (t. M. Glazener, the ]>rice cutter of Hendersonvilh? and Brevard, was a visitor to Rosman the first of this week. C’hestnut Oak Cam]) No. 2'.).') W. (). W. of Rosman gave an oys-ter supp»*r to the m^mbers and their families Saturday night, January .‘il. All ])resent seemed to enjoy thems»*lve Betterment Association THE MONTESSORI METHOD The American people have taken a very vital interest in the educa tional work of Dr. Maria Montes- sori. This wonder working Italian woman took, at the age of ninteen, the degreeof doctor of medicine at the University of Rome. While there she drew the att*jntion of the scientific world to herself by her brilliant presentation of a new phase of anthropology—the better ing of the human race in the future by means of natural nr nd and body developement today. In order to have an opportunity to work out certain theories of her own on feeble-minded children. Dr. Montrssori accepted a i)osition in the Roman clinics for neurotics. Here she found abundant material. Her patient struggles to let the light of knowledge into these little minds developed a system of teach ing, and the use of certain ap])li- ances that would educate automati cally through their eyes, their lin gers, their whole bodies. Every channel into the mind was used, every sense, every im])ulseor action was studied and trained. The feeble minds awoke and de veloped, and the children were BOYLSTON NEWS We are having very nice weather at present. Rev. James I^yner filled his ap pointment at Boylston Saturday and Sunday. II. J. Orr of Rosman spent Satur day and Sunday at his home. » Harvey English, who has been working on Davidson River, spent Sunday at home. Miss Ellen Allision, who has been staying at Hendersonville, was visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Allison, Saturday and Sunday. Misses Onia and Elva Smathers and Mary Banning have gone to Enon to attend the school there. Misses Louise English and Do vie Shipman and Harvey English vis ited at Mr. Richard Scruggs’ Sun day. Bomolink. QUEBEC ITEMS VESSEL IS RAMMED AT SEA Many Unable to Leave the Staterooms. No Time Was Given to Adjust .. Life Preservers. + -I- * * * * * * * + ♦ + Department of Commerce Orders Probe of Wreck. Washington. — A thorough investigation of the circum stances resulting in the colli sion between the Nantucket and Monroe was ordered by the department of commerce. Assistant Secretary Sweet instructed the steamboat in spection service to make an exhaustive inquiry. ♦ * * * + 4> ♦ ♦ ♦ * + + + able to enter the public schools About 1 iiOiH'ople weie ! with «»thers tlu^ saiiu' age, and to keep up with them. Dr. Montes.sori now a])]>lied her syst<*m to no]-inal children. Her success was juarvelons. ciiildren of tour and five in her school were able to read and write as well as childn-n two and thr*‘(‘ years older in the ]>nhlic schools. The* first Montessori school was in St. Mary's conv(‘nt in Rome. Tliere are now nearly one hundnMl in Anu-rica alon(‘, two in C’hina, and several in Svria. .lapan has (‘x- I . ' I perinK*ntal sehoc^ls \vh(*re this new j method will be ado])t(“d, and the j “Mont«*ssori ^lethoti" is being i translated into .lapanese. I Si.vty-.s(*v('n Ainerican teaelu^rs ! took tlu' trainin:,' in Rome in I'.ti;'.. i ; 'I'he physical inqtroveinent of the ! Montessori ])upils is marked, i Though tlu' ciiildn'n were in scliool present. A move is on loot nt)\v to organize a Woodman Circle which will 1'«‘ c)f interest. .Mr. and Mrs. Wade Vaughn lost tlu'ir t Wo weeks old baby Sunday F»'bruary 1st. It took whoo])ing cough out was too young to over come it. We I'.ave ii little whisju'ring ari>nn»l of an ent(*r})] i-.»‘ g»'ing up in Rosman that would be of muc*h in- ti'ri'st 1o all. We hoi)e to he able to giv(‘ the facts before long. Rosman is still growing. There are about I’ jur IU‘W houses going ui>. Wi.shing all a ])ros])erons y»*ar I am, S'l iLi. Hi;i:t:. DOINGS ATRGSMAN The Quebec school is getting along nicely. Mr. G. C. (iallovvay, who has been on the sick list for several i weeks, is improving. We hope to see him well again soon. Misses M. B. Abernethy and Net tie Bumgarner of (Quebec were wel come visitors at the honu^ of Mrs. R. A. (.'ollins of Rosman, Sunday. They r(‘j)ort a nice time. Wt^ are having fine voeatlier for winter. We are always glad when the sun shines. Mr. Barney ('hai)man of this neighborhood visited his sister, Mrs. A. N. ('ollins of Rosman, Sun day night. .Mr. (irillin Owc'u of (41ouc(‘Ster was a visitor at Mr. (t. ('.(Callo way's Sunday. JoLi.v Bii.l. FRUITLAND IKSTSTUTE Mrs. Mo!it (Cla/.eiier lias been (juit(*! li'om nini' tdl live i‘levt*n months in ! the year, almost (’vrry I'hild showed ! decided improvement in blood sup-! ply, v.-i'ii>]it and lu'ight. | The basis of the Montessv>ro method is the training of tlu^ indi vidual. Tliis training begins with ill this week as a result of vacci nation. 'We iire glad ti> reiK>rt that .lan- nin, tht' little son of Mr. and Mrs. L. K. Veltonis iiu])roving. Miss. Allie (’antrell s]ient Satur day and Sunday v.’ith lu‘r mother I physical ('xerci.scs for the j at Brevard. ! v('rv small child, lit,* is taught in-i Mi>s. ljuth ('annon n'tnrned to j‘h‘]x'ndi-ne(( (jf })i»dy by nu'ans of; her luiini' at Pickens, S. ('. last |frariies, from which he 1 week al ter an I'xtcnded visit to learns to button on linen, llannel [ in Rosman. M ai:v .1 anh. h'^id leather, to fastt-n lio(.>ks and i ndati' D3iNCS AT ETOWAH NEWS Evc'ryone has enjo.vt'd the nice w<';:th('r and sevei-al farn’crs are be'j:innin;’- to do their sj)ring plow ing. (leo. II. 'i'aylor spent a short! time with liis jiarents rt'cently. i itt Nicholson is doing a rr.sh- i ing husine.ss with his mill which he erected souk* tinu* ago. . II. .McKinna of Hendei'Fon- ville is sp('iiding a few days at his home. Will Byrd and Jack Beck ar<‘ working tlieir saw mill on M. R. Anderson’s farm. J. E. (ireer is out again after a very severe attack of rheumatism. Bilt.y Smith. BIDS WANTED The county board of education desires bids on the building of a new one-room school house in District No. 2, Hogback Township. For specifications see T. H. Galloway, chairman of bcmrd of education, T. C. Henderson, secretary of board. The Board of Educa^n will meet March 2nd to let the contrl^ for this building All bids must be in hnSbre that date. Mrs. ('has. ilaag made a busi ness tiij) to Bri‘vard on Wednes day. We an* glad to learn of the re covery if Mrs. S. N. Ne.-il. There was service at the Metho dist ( liurch Sunday /light c^mduct- ed ])y Kjv. E. H. Norword of Bre vard i eyes, and to tie bow-knots. I j I j Otlu'r didactic materials are color ! I spools, sand in«]>er letters and fig-; I ures, blocks, rods, Lr«'onu‘tric in-1 ' sets, t'tc., all ».d)vionsly siin])le but I niarvelou.sly efioctive. In Decem ber Dr. Montessori visited the j United States in order to in'plant j more d(‘ej)ly her educational ideas. 1 Dis'jipline, as wi; understand it, is not used in her .schools. Dr. .Montes.sori thinks her .system Mis-ses Caiitrel and Hender.son |adapted to one nation ality as to another ; that dilVerence enterttined the Ladies x\id Society ! of t’le Methodist Chur.jh on Wed-! nesday afternoon. I Mr H. H. Penney has recently j moved his family to Ro.snian, We i are glad to welcome them among | us. I The Rosman Beterinent Associa- of temjierament is not a bar to its success. As tlie average American child has a disposition akin to that of a volcano, and is always jnclined to turn liberty into liccn.se, we must wait for time to jirove if the doc- tion is getting up a play, | to School Ma’am,” which they hope^^^”^^' to i>re.scnt in the near future. Mr. W. P. Whitmire of Hender sonville v.as in town Wednesday on business. Mauy J.\nk. We are glad to see Mi.''^ Sullinger meeting her classes again afthisterer. We are sorry to lose him from our midst. Bii.i. WuAV. CARD OF THANKS Norfolk, Va.—The story of how 43 souls went down to deatli in the chill waters of the Atlantic when the liner Nantucket rammed and sank the steamer Monroe, was brought to port by 91 survivors of the sunken ship’s passengers, rescued and brought to shore by the Nantucket. It was a story of awful and sud den death, sweeping out of the dark and fog, and taking unawares the doomed half hundred with the heavi ness of sleep still upon them. It told how the stricken Monroe, with her side gored deep by the knife-like steel prow of the Nantucket, filled rapidly, rolled over on her side, and in a few min utes turned completely over and then plunged to the bottom, carrying with her the ill-fated passengers and mem bers of tho crew who had failed to get clear of the wreck. Thrilling are the stories told by those rescued from the jaws of death when tlie Old Dominion Steamship company's steamer Monroe, bound from Norfolk to New York, turned turtle at sea within ton minutes after she had been in collision with- the Merchants and Miners’ transportation company’s steamer Nantucket in a dense fog off the Virginia coast. Re vised lists put the lo.^s of life at forty- three, of which number nieteen were passengers and twenty-four members of the Jlonroe’s crew. It was as if they had come from the dead when eigiit of the Monroe’s passengers, whom wireless reports had put in the list of tlie lost, walked or were borne from the steamer Nantucket when the latter Kided the rescued at Norfolk. There were notable deeds of heroism by As.sisting Engineer Oscar Perkins and Fir.'^t Wireless Operator Ferdinand J. Kuelin. Perkins when the inru.sli cf water put on tlie main dynamo and left tlie Monroe in complete dar!uiess, rushed below and put to work an emergency dynamo. He is among the rescued. Wirch's's Operator Kuohn ?:ave the iirst S. O. S. call and alter adjusting a life preserver which would doubt less have saved liis own life, removed this lrf>m his ho.ly and put it on a girl. Kuelia was lost. His assistant, U. L. Etheridge, was saved, and walk ed into the arms el’ bis wife, who stood to Kreet I’im as tlie Nantucket docked with the rescued. ('. W. I'oole, en route from Gray, Va., with his wife and two and a half-year- old boy lo visit in .Vlassachuyetts, had his wiio and child wa.shed from his arms over the rail of the sinking ?,Ion- roe. Poole, completely crushed, told the story of iiis great loss and sor row. ile will return to his Virginia home. Ed Gorman of New York told of harrcv.ini^ scenes of women’s scream ing for help in the cabin of the Monroe. Walking upon tlie side of tlie careen ed sinking ship, Gorman met a girl wlicm he begged to jump with him into the sea. The girl refused and perish ed. Gorman was at the place picked up by a passing lifeboat. J. Ckiitley, s'^rond oiTicor of the Monroe, gave his life preserver up to a lady v.iio had none, and alter baiag washed into the water saved himself by grabbing a lloating ladder. One hundred thousand dollars of a birg« legacy left to carry on mis sionary work by the Roman Catho lic church, among the Protestant heathen, will be used in Xorth Carolina. That is one of the mis sions of the Catholic clergy, to con vert rich Protestants whose for tunes are to be used not so much to make believers in Christ, as to ex tend the influence of the Pope’s hierarchy in this wicked world.— Vhief. How Is Your Boiler.5 It has been stated that a man’s stomach is his boiler, his body is his engine and his mouth the fire box. Is your boile^- (stomach) in good working order or is it so weak that it will not stand a full load and not able to supply the needed energy to your engine (body)*? -If you have any trouble with your stomach Chamberlain’s Tablets will do you good. They strengthen and invigorate the stomach and enable it to do its work naturally. Many very remarkable cures of stomach trouble have been eflected by them. For i-alo by S. 21. ?.IaclIo. adv We take this opportunity to thank the many friends wlu) gave; and otVered their kind assistance in tlu' last illness uf our loved motiicr. and tho kindly ministrations and remembrances shown in so many ways. We assure you they are fully appreciated. Thk Fa.mily. Methodist Minister Recommends Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy. Rev. James A. Lewis, Milica, Minn., writes: “Chamberlain's Cough Remedy'has been a ncede( and welcome guest in our home for a number of years.. I highly recom mend it to my fellows as being a medicine w’orthy of trial in cases of colds, coughs and croup.” Give Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy a trial and we are confident you will find it very effectual and continue to use it as occasion rcc[uires for years to come, as many others have done. For sale by S. M. Marfio. auv $10,000 in Bills Left on Car Seat. Macon, Ca.—Conductor Walter Lit tle picked up a package in a seat of a (’entral of Georgia railway car at (’olumbia, Ala., which later was found to contain ^10,000 in bills. Tlie name of J. C. Kountz appeared on the pack age and it was found that the money belonged to a Dothan bank with whicJi Mr. Kountz is connected. The money was in possession of a messenger, who left the train at Columbia, It wao' re turned to the bank. The money, along widv several other packages, had been placed in a hand grip. U. S. to Exhibit Model of Canal. Washington.—A model of the Pana ma canal which probably will be more than five hundred feet long will be the government’s largest and most elaborate individual exhibit at the Panama-Pacific exposition at San Francisco in 1915. From this model, it is said, the visitor will be able to get a clearer and more comprehensive idea of the canal and of its workings than by an actual visit to the canal itself. Almost at a glance one will get from the huge model a bird’s-eye view of the canal in all its details.